In migrating from flash forms for CF11 upgrade, I'm getting the following error on a large form submission

[stanc76870477]

"Error validating html input.Invalid HTML input. Error=The input was too large. The specified input was 5,040 bytes and the maximum is 5,000 bytes.

I don't see a setting to change this in the CF admin?  Please advise.

[impalerware]

I'm getting this also. Anyone know how to change the limit or of a work around?

[stanc76870477]

I believe replacing with jquery fixed it. 

[impalerware]

Interesting.

All I'm doing is passing a giant list of emails in form.

<cfinput type="hidden" name="to" value="#trim(thesepeople)#">

[BKBK]

impalerware wrote:

Interesting.

All I'm doing is passing a giant list of emails in form.

<cfinput type="hidden" name="to" value="#trim(thesepeople)#">

It might help to add the validation tag,

<cfinput type="hidden"

        name="to_cfformmaxlength"

        value="50000">

This says that the to field may have up to 50 000 characters. That comes up to about 50 kilobytes. However, the jQuery suggestion remains good.

[impalerware]

I actually fixed it by changing the cfform to regular form and cfinput to regular input.

Removing the type=hidden seems to also fix it.

[BKBK]

stanc76870477 wrote:

I believe replacing with jquery fixed it.

I will, like many, agree with your suggestion to use the jQuery equivalent in place of ColdFusion's native user-interface tags, cfform, cfgrid, cflayout, and so on. Thanks for sharing that. Please mark it as the correct answer.

[Selfish_Elephant]

Got the same error in CF11. Seems, query is too big. I'm passing list of IDs to it, which is quite long. How can it be fixed?

[BKBK]

stanc76870477 wrote:

"Error validating html input.Invalid HTML input. Error=The input was too large. The specified input was 5,040 bytes and the maximum is 5,000 bytes.

I don't see a setting to change this in the CF admin?  Please advise.

It may not be the cause but, just for information, there is a setting for form submission in the Coldfusion Administrator. It is in the page, Server Settings => Settings.